"EGXXBOXONES"
If you head to Amazon, and select the FIFA16-500Gb XBox One S, it's currently the cheapest you can find the XBoneS, at only £224. Linkage.
I was looking at it, yesterday, going "Should I..? Should I...!?!?"
This morning, @Geekanoids posted a voucher code ("EGXXBOXONES") which gives you a further £25 off the price.

Yeah, sometimes I feel a bit twatty with all the spending I do.
But then I remember that I'm stuck indoors. I don't drink or smoke. I spend all my time coding.

Mortgage is paid. Prescriptions are free.. All is good.
I basically have smeg all to pay out except essential bills (elec, gas, water and the most important essential, broadband) and then the food on top.. and Mum's paying half of those, too.. so... um.. yeah, it's not so much "gets a shitload" and more "spends fuck all of it."

I'm still on a fairly limited budget, mind. My bank balance is currently the lowest it's been in about 3 years, and that includes the time they took the PIP off me. It's a treat every couple of months, and that keeps me from going crazy, so that's good.

.. not quite sure the bank balance can cope with the upcoming Xmas Insanity, though... eek!

You do end up having less income when you have more money. I am not that good with all the things that are out there though. Apple payed 13 billion less taxes. No idea how a low income person gets the best cards. So much invisible rules and laws ect.

Btw my situation is. It takes me ten years to save 20.000 then 40 years to get to 40.000.

GTAV looks lovely, although I've barely just gotten through the tutorial guff, so am yet to have a good wander around the map to see all the new high-tech loveliness.

I've also installed Geometry Wars Evolved, Sonic 1 and 2, which were all from my X360's account. They all run in the X360-emulator environment.

Currently waiting for the Forza3 demo to download, along with my "bundled" copy of FIFA17. Which wasn't on a disc, and was only a download code, so I have to download the whole bloomin' thing.

Later on I'll be buying a copy of PacMan Championships 2, because realistically, that was the game that made me go "oh, ffs, now I have to buy an XBone or PS4!!", last week.
But that means giving my card data to Microsoft..
*shudder*

Spent about an hour playing GTAV this morning.
That's much better than I could manage on the PS3 version, but I'm still feeling very queasy after it!

Hmm. :/

Meanwhile, I've heard rumours that the XBone's super-cheap £224 Amazon price was down to EA, and they're apparently lining up a similar PS4 bargain.
If you're after a PS4, might be worth keeping an eye on the site.

I haven't done any coding, today.
Instead, I spent most of the day playing games for a change!!

Findings

Tried the Demo of Dead Rising 3. The Demo of Dead Rising 1 saw you in a shopping mall, with fucktons of zombies. Grab a baseball bat, whack a few heads off, things like that. Fun, enjoyable, and nice and colourful.
The Demo of Dead Rising 3 sees you wandering a dark dank cabin, trying to manufacture a weapon from the things you can find. The controls were horrendous.. Who makes "Attack" the top-most face button?! I mean, seriously, who!?!
It wasn't fun.
It wasn't immediate.
It wasn't the same.
I rage-quit.

Tried out Perfect Dark (originally an N64 game, the sequel to the wonderful Goldeneye 64) from the RARE collection.
(Note : I've now owned this game for about 3 weeks.. Shows how much I play games, anymore!)

Went through the "Building Guide", at the end of which I got left to roam around within the building. There was a gun-range, where I could practice my shooting..
.. Except I couldn't get the gun-range to "activate".. If I talked to the guy, the only option was "(B) Cancel"
I tried a few other rooms in the building, and was met with similar "NO. FUCK OFF!" results.
I gave up trying to get any further.
I rage-quit.

Tried out Perfect Dark Zero, (originally an X360 game) also from the RARE collection. (and also a game I bought 3 weeks ago but haven't got around to playing yet!)

Training mission left me trying to sneak into a mysterious building.
The building had shiny doors which you had to head towards, which was a bloody good job because "Perfect Dark" is indeed a valid name.
The floors were dark. The walls were dark.
I squinted, trying to see what the fucking hell was going on.
I think I might've shot someone, but honestly that could've just been my cat's reflection on the screen.
I rage-quit.

Tried out a Demo of Screamride.
Screamride is a game from Elite-peeps "Frontier", and is roughly a roller coaster game. (remember that Frontier were the developers of RCTycoon3)
Rather than design the coasters, you control the coaster.
Right Trigger for thrust, left+right to tilt and avoid drastic g-forces, Left Trigger for brake.
You can also earn/use boosts for extra "excitement!"
I played it for about 10 minutes, then felt violently sick.
I had to quit before I threw up.
.. But at least I didn't rage-quit.

That last game is a neat enough concept, but I can't see it lasting far beyond "Oooh, a roller coaster"
At least in RCTycoon, you could build them. Here you're just pushing the button to make them go faster, and honestly that's just not as much fun.

I deleted the ScreamRide demo, as well as the Dead Rising 3 demo, and have left the XBone downloading a few more (7/8Gb each!?!) demos.. WRC Rally and the new Doom being the two I'm looking forward to trying out.
I'll probably play them next Friday. I think I'm going to make Friday a play-day. .. Maybe..!

Meanwhile, I also considered picking up Elite Dangerous, but scrolling through the store's list reveals about 6 or 7 different "editions" of the game. Arena Edition, Commander Edition, Horizons Edition, Standard Edition, then a multitude of combinations thereof.
I haven't got a fucking clue what I'm looking at!!

not quite sure the bank balance can cope with the upcoming Xmas Insanity, though... eek!

Ohhh bloody hell aye... Thats nearly here... They should make Christmas like the World Cup or Olympics, once every four years... You know, give people time to pay debt off because of it!

As the years roll by I am starting to give less of a toss of it if I'm honest. Here's your presents, thanks for the new socks, that was a lovely dinner and I'm rammed, I'm off to sleep for a bit!

And thats pretty much it!

If I could, I wish I could keep my holidays at Christmas and use them in the summer, you know, when its sorta nice and I can actually go out, in a t-shirt and do... Well stuff, instead of being wrapped up with more skins then an onion and a walk to the shops for a box of tabs is more of a "FFS" then it should be!